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noun
- a coordinated sequence of chess moves
- a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
- a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock
- the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
- the act of combining things to form a new whole
- a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
- an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
- An object formed by combining.
- Synonym of combinations (A one-piece suit of underwear).
- (motorcycling) A motorcycle and sidecar.
- (billiards) A shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
- (chess) An advantageous sequence of forcing or nearly forcing moves, often initiated with a sacrifice.
- The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
- (mathematics) One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
- A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
- An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
- (boxing, martial arts) A rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports.
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- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
- the first of a series of actions
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
- the initial part of the introduction
- an open or empty space in or between things
- opportunity especially for employment or promotion
- a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- becoming open or being made open
- a possible alternative
- the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
- the act of opening something
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The first few moves in a game.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A time available in a schedule.
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- (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
- (European Union) An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law.
- (especially mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
- (music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transferred to a new position on the same or another chromosome
- any abnormal position of the organs of the body
- (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
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- (chess and similar games) The standardization and study of fixed sequences of moves, especially in the opening phase of a game.
- (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
- (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
- A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
- (informal) A hypothesis or conjecture.
- (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.
- (countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
- a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
- a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
- a belief that can guide behavior
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- (chess) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
- To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
- To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
- (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
- (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- keep an account of
- have faith or confidence in
- judge to be probable
- predict in advance
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- (chess) The player moving the white pieces.
- Alternative letter-case form of white (“European”).
- (historical, politics) An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.
- a person of European descent with a light-skinned or pale complexion
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- A city in South Dakota; named for its first European settler.
- A ghost town in Missouri; named for a local mining official.
- A minor city in Bartow County, Georgia; named for its first postmaster.
- An unincorporated community in Washington; named for a Washington state judge.
- A common British and Irish surname transferred from the nickname.
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- An unincorporated community in Edwards County, Illinois.
- A township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania; from the surname.
- An unincorporated community in Mercer County and Wyoming County, West Virginia.
- A township in Posey County, Indiana; from the surname.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- An unincorporated community in Reynolds County, Missouri.
- A town in Geneva County, Alabama.
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- (chess) A chess puzzle in which a number of moves are retracted and the solver is challenged to reach an alternate outcome.
- A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound.
- One who, or that which, retracts.
- (zoology) A muscle serving to draw in any part.
- A bandage to protect soft parts of the body from injury by a surgical saw.
- In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
- surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision
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- (chess, in combination) A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.
- Someone who or something that moves.
- A dancer.
- A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
- Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
- A product that sells well.
- a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another
- someone who moves
- (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
- workman employed by a moving company
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- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
- a large and stately mansion
- (cricket, colloquial) The wicket.
- (shogi) A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
- A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
- (chess) An instance of castling.
- (chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
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- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
- (transitive, figurative) To protect or separate in a similar way.
- (usually intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
- (usually intransitive, chess) To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
- (cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
- (transitive) To house or keep in a castle.
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- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- mist; fog; roke
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
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- (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
- A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
- A series of up-and-down movements.
- (medicine, attributively) An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
- A series of alternating movements or feelings.
- a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
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- (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
- (dance) A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
- The building or structure containing such machinery.
- A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
- Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
- A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
- (basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
- (figurative) An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
- (music) A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
- (baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
- The act of windmilling.
- (juggling) The false shower.
- (colloquial, proscribed) A wind turbine, a device for converting wind power into electricity.
- a mill that is powered by the wind
- generator that extracts usable energy from winds
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- To move in order to rotate the penis in a circle (similar to the rotation of a windmill).
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of a propeller or turbine rotor) To be rotated by the force of the fluid passing through (the propeller or turbine rotor).
- (intransitive, of a rotating part of a machine) To (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and two at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
- A zebra crossing.
- (informal) A zebra cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata).
- (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A biracial person, specifically one born to a Sub-Saharan African person and a white person.
- (medicine, by extension) Someone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility spectrum disorder
- Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
- (sports, slang) A referee.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
- (medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment.
- any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines
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- (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
- port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
- a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
- A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
- (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
- Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
- (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
- (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
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- (Christianity) To make a bishop.
- (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
- (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
- (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
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- (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- Any level line or surface.
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
- a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
- A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).
- A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
- (ethnic slur) A person of Middle Eastern origin.
- (typically in the plural) A vessel or tank, typically paired, used to make an object more buoyant.
- cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
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- (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- (military) Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude, especially for meditation, prayer, or study.
- (military) A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- (military) A signal for a military withdrawal.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- (military) A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- an area where you can be alone
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- (intransitive) To withdraw from a position, go back.
- (intransitive) To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures. (of a glacier)
- (intransitive) To slope back.
- (intransitive) To withdraw military forces.
- Alternative form of re-treat.
- move away, as for privacy
- move back
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
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- (chess) A move in which a pawn captures an opposing pawn on the same rank immediately after the latter has moved forward two squares on its first move in the game, as if it had moved forward only one square.
- (chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed
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- (chess) Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
- (music) A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
- An array of similar things.
- (originally and sometimes still, strictly) Such a device that has multiple cells.
- (law) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
- The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
- (metonymic, informal, uncountable) The energy stored in such a device.
- (electricity, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
- (military, countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
- Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
- a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- a collection of related things intended for use together
- group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
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- (chess) The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
- (uncountable) The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- (rare) A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
- A gallery.
- (idiomatic) A person being manipulated by another, being used to some end.
- Alternative form of paan.
- An instance of pawning something.
- borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan
- an article deposited as security
- (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
- a person used by another to gain an end
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- (intransitive, chess) To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.
- (transitive, algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
- (transitive, graph theory) To reverse the direction of every edge of (a graph).
- (transitive, law, chiefly of the European Union) To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures.
- (transitive, music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.
- (transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
- (transitive, linear algebra) To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
- put (a piece of music) into another key
- cause to change places
- change the order or arrangement of
- transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
- transfer from one place or period to another
- change key
- exchange positions without a change in value
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- (graph theory) A graph whose every edge has had its direction reversed.
- (linear algebra) The matrix derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
- (linear algebra) The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
- a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix
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- (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
- An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- A particular feature or trait.
- A musical composition which is short in duration.
- Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- (roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
- painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
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- (chess) A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.
- (American football) A rapid rate of play by the offense resulting from reducing the amount of time which elapses after one play ends and the next starts.
- (bridge) The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.
- A small truck or cargo van with three or four wheels, commonly used for commercial transport and deliveries (particularly in Asian and African countries).
- A temporary carport.
- The timing of a particular event – earlier or later than in an alternative situation (as in chess example)
- (cycling) The steady pace set by the frontmost riders.
- A frequency or rate.
- (music) The number of beats per minute in a piece of music; also, an indicative term denoting approximate rate of speed in written music (examples: allegro, andante)
- the rate of some repeating event
- (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A person who makes jokes.
- A jester.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
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- a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
- an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
- (chess) An opening in chess in which material is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
- Any ploy or stratagem.
- A remark intended to open a conversation.
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- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
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- (pertaining to motion over a square grid) Two steps in the vertical direction and one step in the horizontal direction, or vice versa, with each move, in the manner of a chess knight.
- (pertaining to motion over a square grid, by extension) Having slope 2, with 2n vertical steps and n horizontal steps (with n being some positive integer), or vice versa, with each move.
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- (pertaining to moving over a square grid) Two steps in the vertical direction and one step in the horizontal direction, or vice versa, with each move, in the manner of a chess knight.
- (pertaining to moving over a square grid, by extension) (Moving) with slope 2; (taking) 2n vertical steps and n horizontal steps (with n being some positive integer), or vice versa, with each move.
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- (chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
- (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
- (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
- (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
- (law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
- (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
- (modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
- originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
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- the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board
- the final stages of an extended process of negotiation
- (video games) The gameplay available in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for players who have completed all of the preset challenges.
- (figuratively) The final stage of an extended process or course of events, especially with the implication of the imminent realization of a masterful strategy or plan.
- (crosswording) The thematic element of an advanced cryptic crossword puzzle, typically solved after completing the grid.
- (bridge) The final stage of a game of bridge, when there are few cards left.
- (chess) The final stage of a game of chess, when there are few pieces left.
- (by extension) The final stage of any game.
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- (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- spread or diffuse through
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- come to understand
- insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
- make one's way deeper into or through
- pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
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- (chess) An opening move played for the first time ever (in high-level chess).
- In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
- A small mass-produced trinket.
- A new product; an innovation.
- The state of being new or novel; newness.
- originality by virtue of being new and surprising
- cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
- originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
- a small inexpensive mass-produced article
adj
noun
- (countable, chess) A delaying move in which the king moves in a triangular path to force the advance of a pawn.
- (countable, surveying) The network of triangles so obtained, that are the basis of a chart or map.
- (uncountable, surveying) A technique in which distances and directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the principles of trigonometry; (countable) an instance of the use of this technique.
- (countable, geometry) A subdivision of a planar object into triangles, and by extension the subdivision of a higher-dimension geometric object into simplices.
- (uncountable, politics) The practice of repositioning one's group or oneself on the political spectrum in an attempt to capture the centre.
- (uncountable, navigation, seismology) A process by which an unknown location is found using three known distances from known locations.
- (uncountable, qualitative research) The use of three (or more) researchers to interview the same people or to evaluate the same evidence to reduce the impact of individual bias.
- a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation
- a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated
noun
- (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
- (photography) The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
- (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
- (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- (countable) Something which has developed.
- (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
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- (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
- meat from a domestic hog or pig
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
verb
noun
- (chess) A tactical move which interrupts the execution of the current plan.
- (food) A palate cleanser; a small snack with a bright light neutral taste; a fruit; a fresh sparkling wine; or a fruity or milky cocktail; that is served between courses in a meal.
- (music, art) A short piece of music or act in the interval of the main spectacle; a theatrical interlude.
- a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera
- a brief show (music or dance etc.) inserted between the sections of a longer performance
- a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony
verb
- (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
- (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
- (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
- (intransitive) To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
- To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
- (informal, transitive, usually in present participle) To approach; to come close to.
- (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
- (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- (poker) To make an all-in bet.
- (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
- (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
- (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
- (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
- (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
- approach a certain age or speed
- press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action
- move strenuously and with effort
- move with force
- sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)
- make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- press against forcefully without moving
noun
- An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
- An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
- (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
- A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
- A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
- (snooker) A push shot.
- A great effort (to do something).
- (professional wrestling slang) An attempt to give momentum to a wrestler's career in the form of victories and/or more screen time.
- (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
- A push-button, such as a bell push.
- (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.
- (figurative) A force that impels or pressures one to act.
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- the act of applying force in order to move something away
- an effort to advance
- the force used in pushing
- enterprising or ambitious drive
verb
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
- (transitive) To create.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- change the use of and make available or usable
- work out
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- grow emotionally or mature
- create by training and teaching
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- become technologically advanced
- expand in the form of a series
- happen
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- gain through experience
- generate gradually
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
noun
adj
noun
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
noun
- a coordinated sequence of chess moves
- a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
- a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock
- the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
- the act of combining things to form a new whole
- a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
- an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
- An object formed by combining.
- Synonym of combinations (A one-piece suit of underwear).
- (motorcycling) A motorcycle and sidecar.
- (billiards) A shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
- (chess) An advantageous sequence of forcing or nearly forcing moves, often initiated with a sacrifice.
- The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
- (mathematics) One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
- A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
- An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
- (boxing, martial arts) A rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports.
noun
- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
- the first of a series of actions
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
- the initial part of the introduction
- an open or empty space in or between things
- opportunity especially for employment or promotion
- a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- becoming open or being made open
- a possible alternative
- the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
- the act of opening something
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The first few moves in a game.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A time available in a schedule.
adj
verb
noun
- (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
- (European Union) An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law.
- (especially mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
- (music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transferred to a new position on the same or another chromosome
- any abnormal position of the organs of the body
- (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
verb
noun
- (chess and similar games) The standardization and study of fixed sequences of moves, especially in the opening phase of a game.
- (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
- (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
- A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
- (informal) A hypothesis or conjecture.
- (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.
- (countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
- a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
- a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
- a belief that can guide behavior
noun
adj
noun
- (chess) The player moving the white pieces.
- Alternative letter-case form of white (“European”).
- (historical, politics) An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.
- a person of European descent with a light-skinned or pale complexion
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name
- A city in South Dakota; named for its first European settler.
- A ghost town in Missouri; named for a local mining official.
- A minor city in Bartow County, Georgia; named for its first postmaster.
- An unincorporated community in Washington; named for a Washington state judge.
- A common British and Irish surname transferred from the nickname.
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adj
name
- An unincorporated community in Edwards County, Illinois.
- A township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania; from the surname.
- An unincorporated community in Mercer County and Wyoming County, West Virginia.
- A township in Posey County, Indiana; from the surname.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- An unincorporated community in Reynolds County, Missouri.
- A town in Geneva County, Alabama.
noun
- (chess) A chess puzzle in which a number of moves are retracted and the solver is challenged to reach an alternate outcome.
- A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound.
- One who, or that which, retracts.
- (zoology) A muscle serving to draw in any part.
- A bandage to protect soft parts of the body from injury by a surgical saw.
- In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
- surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision
noun
- (chess, in combination) A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.
- Someone who or something that moves.
- A dancer.
- A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
- Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
- A product that sells well.
- a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another
- someone who moves
- (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
- workman employed by a moving company
noun
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
- a large and stately mansion
- (cricket, colloquial) The wicket.
- (shogi) A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
- A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
- (chess) An instance of castling.
- (chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
verb
- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
- (transitive, figurative) To protect or separate in a similar way.
- (usually intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
- (usually intransitive, chess) To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
- (cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
- (transitive) To house or keep in a castle.
noun
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- mist; fog; roke
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
verb
noun
- (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
- A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
- A series of up-and-down movements.
- (medicine, attributively) An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
- A series of alternating movements or feelings.
- a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
adj
verb
noun
- (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
- (dance) A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
- The building or structure containing such machinery.
- A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
- Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
- A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
- (basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
- (figurative) An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
- (music) A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
- (baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
- The act of windmilling.
- (juggling) The false shower.
- (colloquial, proscribed) A wind turbine, a device for converting wind power into electricity.
- a mill that is powered by the wind
- generator that extracts usable energy from winds
verb
- To move in order to rotate the penis in a circle (similar to the rotation of a windmill).
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of a propeller or turbine rotor) To be rotated by the force of the fluid passing through (the propeller or turbine rotor).
- (intransitive, of a rotating part of a machine) To (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.
noun
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and two at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
- A zebra crossing.
- (informal) A zebra cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata).
- (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A biracial person, specifically one born to a Sub-Saharan African person and a white person.
- (medicine, by extension) Someone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility spectrum disorder
- Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
- (sports, slang) A referee.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
- (medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment.
- any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines
noun
- (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
- port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
- a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
- A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
- (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
- Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
- (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
- (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
verb
- (Christianity) To make a bishop.
- (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
- (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
- (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
noun
- (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- Any level line or surface.
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
- a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
noun
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
- A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).
- A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
- (ethnic slur) A person of Middle Eastern origin.
- (typically in the plural) A vessel or tank, typically paired, used to make an object more buoyant.
- cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
adj
noun
- (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- (military) Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude, especially for meditation, prayer, or study.
- (military) A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- (military) A signal for a military withdrawal.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- (military) A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- an area where you can be alone
verb
- (intransitive) To withdraw from a position, go back.
- (intransitive) To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures. (of a glacier)
- (intransitive) To slope back.
- (intransitive) To withdraw military forces.
- Alternative form of re-treat.
- move away, as for privacy
- move back
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
noun
- (chess) A move in which a pawn captures an opposing pawn on the same rank immediately after the latter has moved forward two squares on its first move in the game, as if it had moved forward only one square.
- (chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed
adj
adv
noun
- (chess) Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
- (music) A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
- An array of similar things.
- (originally and sometimes still, strictly) Such a device that has multiple cells.
- (law) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
- The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
- (metonymic, informal, uncountable) The energy stored in such a device.
- (electricity, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
- (military, countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
- Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
- a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- a collection of related things intended for use together
- group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
noun
- (chess) The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
- (uncountable) The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- (rare) A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
- A gallery.
- (idiomatic) A person being manipulated by another, being used to some end.
- Alternative form of paan.
- An instance of pawning something.
- borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan
- an article deposited as security
- (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
- a person used by another to gain an end
verb
noun
- (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
- An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- A particular feature or trait.
- A musical composition which is short in duration.
- Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- (roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
- painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
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- (chess) A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.
- (American football) A rapid rate of play by the offense resulting from reducing the amount of time which elapses after one play ends and the next starts.
- (bridge) The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.
- A small truck or cargo van with three or four wheels, commonly used for commercial transport and deliveries (particularly in Asian and African countries).
- A temporary carport.
- The timing of a particular event – earlier or later than in an alternative situation (as in chess example)
- (cycling) The steady pace set by the frontmost riders.
- A frequency or rate.
- (music) The number of beats per minute in a piece of music; also, an indicative term denoting approximate rate of speed in written music (examples: allegro, andante)
- the rate of some repeating event
- (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played
noun
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A person who makes jokes.
- A jester.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
noun
- a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
- an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
- (chess) An opening in chess in which material is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
- Any ploy or stratagem.
- A remark intended to open a conversation.
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- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
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- (chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
- (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
- (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
- (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
- (law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
- (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
- (modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
- originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
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- the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board
- the final stages of an extended process of negotiation
- (video games) The gameplay available in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for players who have completed all of the preset challenges.
- (figuratively) The final stage of an extended process or course of events, especially with the implication of the imminent realization of a masterful strategy or plan.
- (crosswording) The thematic element of an advanced cryptic crossword puzzle, typically solved after completing the grid.
- (bridge) The final stage of a game of bridge, when there are few cards left.
- (chess) The final stage of a game of chess, when there are few pieces left.
- (by extension) The final stage of any game.
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- (chess) An opening move played for the first time ever (in high-level chess).
- In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
- A small mass-produced trinket.
- A new product; an innovation.
- The state of being new or novel; newness.
- originality by virtue of being new and surprising
- cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
- originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
- a small inexpensive mass-produced article
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- (countable, chess) A delaying move in which the king moves in a triangular path to force the advance of a pawn.
- (countable, surveying) The network of triangles so obtained, that are the basis of a chart or map.
- (uncountable, surveying) A technique in which distances and directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the principles of trigonometry; (countable) an instance of the use of this technique.
- (countable, geometry) A subdivision of a planar object into triangles, and by extension the subdivision of a higher-dimension geometric object into simplices.
- (uncountable, politics) The practice of repositioning one's group or oneself on the political spectrum in an attempt to capture the centre.
- (uncountable, navigation, seismology) A process by which an unknown location is found using three known distances from known locations.
- (uncountable, qualitative research) The use of three (or more) researchers to interview the same people or to evaluate the same evidence to reduce the impact of individual bias.
- a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation
- a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated
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- (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
- (photography) The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
- (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
- (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- (countable) Something which has developed.
- (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
noun
- (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
- meat from a domestic hog or pig
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
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- (chess) A tactical move which interrupts the execution of the current plan.
- (food) A palate cleanser; a small snack with a bright light neutral taste; a fruit; a fresh sparkling wine; or a fruity or milky cocktail; that is served between courses in a meal.
- (music, art) A short piece of music or act in the interval of the main spectacle; a theatrical interlude.
- a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera
- a brief show (music or dance etc.) inserted between the sections of a longer performance
- a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony
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- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
verb
- (chess) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
- To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
- To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
- (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
- (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- keep an account of
- have faith or confidence in
- judge to be probable
- predict in advance
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- (intransitive, chess) To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.
- (transitive, algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
- (transitive, graph theory) To reverse the direction of every edge of (a graph).
- (transitive, law, chiefly of the European Union) To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures.
- (transitive, music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.
- (transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
- (transitive, linear algebra) To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
- put (a piece of music) into another key
- cause to change places
- change the order or arrangement of
- transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
- transfer from one place or period to another
- change key
- exchange positions without a change in value
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- (graph theory) A graph whose every edge has had its direction reversed.
- (linear algebra) The matrix derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
- (linear algebra) The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
- a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix
verb
- (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- spread or diffuse through
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- come to understand
- insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
- make one's way deeper into or through
- pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
verb
- (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
- (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
- (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
- (intransitive) To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
- To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
- (informal, transitive, usually in present participle) To approach; to come close to.
- (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
- (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- (poker) To make an all-in bet.
- (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
- (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
- (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
- (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
- (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
- approach a certain age or speed
- press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action
- move strenuously and with effort
- move with force
- sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)
- make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- press against forcefully without moving
noun
- An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
- An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
- (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
- A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
- A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
- (snooker) A push shot.
- A great effort (to do something).
- (professional wrestling slang) An attempt to give momentum to a wrestler's career in the form of victories and/or more screen time.
- (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
- A push-button, such as a bell push.
- (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.
- (figurative) A force that impels or pressures one to act.
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- the act of applying force in order to move something away
- an effort to advance
- the force used in pushing
- enterprising or ambitious drive
verb
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
- (transitive) To create.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- change the use of and make available or usable
- work out
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- grow emotionally or mature
- create by training and teaching
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- become technologically advanced
- expand in the form of a series
- happen
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- gain through experience
- generate gradually
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
adj
- (pertaining to motion over a square grid) Two steps in the vertical direction and one step in the horizontal direction, or vice versa, with each move, in the manner of a chess knight.
- (pertaining to motion over a square grid, by extension) Having slope 2, with 2n vertical steps and n horizontal steps (with n being some positive integer), or vice versa, with each move.
adv
- (pertaining to moving over a square grid) Two steps in the vertical direction and one step in the horizontal direction, or vice versa, with each move, in the manner of a chess knight.
- (pertaining to moving over a square grid, by extension) (Moving) with slope 2; (taking) 2n vertical steps and n horizontal steps (with n being some positive integer), or vice versa, with each move.
adj
- (pertaining to motion over a square grid) Two steps in the vertical direction and one step in the horizontal direction, or vice versa, with each move, in the manner of a chess knight.
- (pertaining to motion over a square grid, by extension) Having slope 2, with 2n vertical steps and n horizontal steps (with n being some positive integer), or vice versa, with each move.
adv
- (pertaining to moving over a square grid) Two steps in the vertical direction and one step in the horizontal direction, or vice versa, with each move, in the manner of a chess knight.
- (pertaining to moving over a square grid, by extension) (Moving) with slope 2; (taking) 2n vertical steps and n horizontal steps (with n being some positive integer), or vice versa, with each move.